Free cookies at Seattle’s Westlake Park Wednesday

Listen up, Seattle. This is very important. There are free cookies downtown today.

Don’t rush out the door just yet; I need to tell you a few more details.

The chocolate chip cookies come to your courtesy of the DoubleTree by Hilton. The national hotel chain is dispatching cookie crews to cities around the nation as part of a hospitality campaign, and roughly 15,000 cookies will be shared in Portland and Seattle this week.

Apparently, this cookie is some kind of big deal — and this year marks its 25th anniversary.

“Since 1986, the DoubleTree by Hilton chocolate chip cookie has represented a warm, friendly welcome for travelers,” according to a statement from DoubleTree. “Every guest who checks into one of the more than 250 DoubleTree by Hilton hotels and resorts in 19 countries across five continents receives this same signature, sweet treat at check-in.”